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Wednesday 15 March 2023
Inventory correction at major Taiwan IC designers coming to an end
Taiwan's major fabless chipmakers including MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics, and Realtek Semiconductor have seen their revenues show signs of recovery, indicating their inventory...
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Taiwan makes further inroads into global space supply chain, now eyeing satellite components
The industrial event 'Satellite 2023' has begun in Washington DC, USA, attracting over 350 companies from the aerospace supply chain, among them household names like NASA, SpaceX,...
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Intel 4th Gen Xeon sprints into market
​Intel, on January 10, 2023, officially launched its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) for datacenter customers around the globe.
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Loongson poised to challenge x86, Arm with own CPU architecture
Chinese CPU designer Loongson Technology is seen as China's representative to challenge international mainstream instruction set architectures (ISAs), Intel's x86 and Arm, with its...
Wednesday 15 March 2023
GlobalWafers sees customers' advance payments top US$1 billion
GlobalWafers received an all-time high of NT$39.73 billion (US$1.3 billion) in advance payments made by its customers as of the end of 2022, according to the silicon wafer company,...
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Taiwan supply chain critical to AI ecosystem, says Qualcomm executive
Taiwan already plays an important role in the global PC supply chain and will be critical to the AI ecosystem, according to Kedar Kondap, SVP and GM of compute and gaming at Qualcomm...
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Can Huawei's HiSilicon reclaim its former glory as a chip design powerhouse?
A multitude of semiconductor applications has blossomed in recent years. The rise and fall of Huawei's HiSilicon Semiconductor after a decade of rapid development are the most noteworthy...
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Automotive IDMs seeking partnerships in Taiwan
More automotive IDMs are following in NXP's footsteps and looking to expand their partner ecosystems in Taiwan, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 15 March 2023
TSMC fab utilization to recover starting 2Q23
Part of TSMC's fab utilization rates, including those for 7/6nm process nodes, will begin to recover in April, sooner than previously predicted by the market, according to sources...
Tuesday 14 March 2023
MediaTek and Kontron collaborate on the integration of Genio chipsets for IoT Applications
Chipmaker MediaTek and Kontron, a global provider of IoT and Embedded Computer Technology (ECT), announced on March 14 that Kontron is integrating MediaTek's Genio 1200 and Genio...
Tuesday 14 March 2023
Taiwan IC designers urged to sharpen specs formulation, solutions design capabilities
Taiwan IC design houses should work harder to catch up with leading international players in terms of specifications formulation and solutions design capabilities, and they must also...
Tuesday 14 March 2023
With industrial application demand still strong, IC distributors rely on industrial control to thrive
Although consumer market demand in 2023 has remained sluggish, under the developmental trend of Industry 4.0 and networking, the global industrial control and factory automation market...
Tuesday 14 March 2023
Infineon and Continental to cooperate on HPC-based vehicle architecture
Germany-based chipmaker Infineon will be collaboraing with Tier-1 supplier Continental in the development of server-based vehicle architecture, according to an announcement made on...
Tuesday 14 March 2023
Renesas expands RA MCU family
Renesas Electronics has introduced two new 32-bit RA microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the Arm Cortex-M33 core and Arm TrustZone technology. The new 100-MHz RA4E2 and 200-MHz RA6E2...
Tuesday 14 March 2023
IC verification labs see demand pick up for system vendors' self-developed chips
The efforts of system device vendors to develop new chips in-house have been stalled since the third quarter of 2022, but they have recently resumed their "acceleration track," according...